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    A Place to Hide: A Novel
    A Place to Hide: A Novel
    A Place to Hide: A Novel
    Audiobook10 hours

    A Place to Hide: A Novel

    Written by Ronald H. Balson

    Narrated by Fred Berman

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    About this audiobook

    From the winner of the National Jewish Book Award

    Theodore “Teddy” Hartigan is the scion of a wealthy Washington, D.C. family who place him into a comfortable job at the State Department and a placid diplomat’s career. In 1938, as Hitler’s inexorable rise continues, Teddy is re-assigned to the US Consulate in Amsterdam to replace fleeing staff.

    Teddy’s job is to process visa applications, and by 1939, refugees from Nazi-conquered Poland, Austria, and other countries are desperate to secure safe passage to America. As Hitler sweeps through France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Denmark, and Holland, the screws tighten and law after virulent law is passed to threaten the lives, indeed the very existence of the Jewish people. When Teddy and his girlfriend Sara are introduced to an orphaned young girl named Katy, who has been abandoned on the grounds of a nursery school, they agree to adopt her. Teddy comes to realize that he holds the key to saving lives, whether five, fifty, or five hundred—and makes the dangerous and selfless decision to join with underground groups and use his position at the Consulate to rescue those with no other avenue of escape.

    Powerful and dramatic, National Jewish Book Award winner Ronald H. Balson’s A Place to Hide explores the deeply-moving actions of an ordinary man who resolves, under perilous circumstances, to make a difference.

    A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateSep 17, 2024
    ISBN9781250353689
    A Place to Hide: A Novel
    Author

    Ronald H. Balson

    RONALD H. BALSON is an attorney, professor, and writer. His novel The Girl From Berlin won the National Jewish Book Award and was the Illinois Reading Council's adult fiction selection for their Illinois Reads program. He is also the author of The Righteous, An Affair of Spies, Defending Britta Stein, Eli’s Promise, Karolina's Twins, The Trust, Saving Sophie, and the international bestseller Once We Were Brothers. He has appeared on many television and radio programs and has lectured nationally and internationally on his writing. He lives in Chicago.

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    • 5/5
      What a courageous story! I struggled to listen to the narrater, but thought the voice suits Teddy and therefore continued listening.
    • 5/5
      This book is great. I really enjoyed the story. I learned a lot about America’s immigration laws and the rescue of Jewish children from the Netherlands.
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      great book! I loved the narrarator great voice! Must listen!
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